- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman Quotes
On being seen, and being heard, as a woman.
This set touches on the extra scrutiny women face in performance careers and the emotional stakes of being noticed romantically. For related identity-focused lines, see I Am.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Not Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been very rare to see a black woman as a protagonist. And also as three-dimensional people - mathematicians, mothers, wives, complicated people, not perfect.
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our youth-oriented society does not have a clearly defined place for the older woman.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020